Loren Goldner

Online archive of texts by and about Loren Goldner (1947-2024), communist writer-activist and co-editor of Insurgent Notes.

Loren Goldner

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Book review: Beth Macy's "Factory Man"

Loren Goldner reviews "Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town" (2014) by Beth…

[Video] The Chinese working class in the global capitalist crisis - Loren Goldner

"The Chinese Working Class in the Global Capitalist Crisis: Revolutionary Mass Strike or a New Bureaucratic Containment?" - Loren Goldner discusses the Chinese working class and its formation mostly since 1949. From Insurgent Notes #12.

Struggles in logistics in Italy - Loren Goldner

From Insurgent Notes #12.

Book review: Nick Turse's "Kill Anything That Moves"

Loren Goldner reviews "Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse for Insurgent Notes #11, January 2025.

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Book review: J. Arch Getty's "Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition"

Review by Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #10.

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The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #10.

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Book review: Philip Mirowski's "Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste"

Loren Goldner reviews "Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the…

CNT-FAI militants during the Spanish revolution

The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism; How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn’t), Then and Now

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #9.

Book review: Frank Bardacke's "Trampling Out The Vintage"

Loren Goldner reviews Frank Bardacke's "Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of…

Fictitious Capital and Contracted Social Reproduction Today; China and Permanent Revolution

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #8, March 2013.

Book review: John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect"

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

A picture depicting a dystopian Big Brother statue from 1984 with the slogans "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery" with a picture of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu standing together superimposed on top of it.

Geopolitics, imperialism and class politics today: a conversation with Raffaele Sciortino - Clearinghouse (October 2025)

Raffaele Sciortino is a comrade whose work is slowly becoming better known in the…